This video was super helpful when I did my inspection yesterday. I actually found the queen in one of my hives that I hadn't seen before! It also saved me a lot of time. Thank you!
Hey HBH, I just wanted to let you know that I really appreciate the work that you're doing here. I had a decent hive going my first year and they absconded last September. Your videos have been HUGE in helping me understand how bees operate and I'm excited about my new colony now that I know what to look for. Thanks!
Seeing the queen during a hive inspection is usually kind of neat for both amateur and professional, however, observing and assessing the work the queen is doing is the essential thing because the welfare of the hive depends on it. Nice video, thanks
GREAT VIDEO, PLEASE SHOW the FRAMES IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA as U EXPLAIN. ty and another thing is missing is when u showed the Problems on the Frames I Wish you could explain the reasons and possibly the Solutions , TY
Just excellent, Sir, you did a really good tutorial on finding and protecting the queen and protecting her throughout your inspection. Thanks for your time.I have 34 years in beekeeping so I know when I see excellence. Thanks again.
I like this better then the first one I watched. He took a long time looking where he did not expect to find her. You didn't bother. And by spending less time in the hive has to benefit the bees.
Thanks for an excellent video. The best explanation on how to find a queen I have seen. I am a beekeeper ( only two years experience) in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney Australia.
Very educational video, detailed and clear explanations. I would put it in more professional camera from different directions with 4k quality. I would suggest re do it as its really helpful.
Thanks Mr. Dunn Think I'm in the same boat as the last hive, Nuc installed 4 weeks ago had lots capped and uncapped brood, Had the seller come inspect hive 3 weeks ago stated just feed and don't open for 3 weeks. Yesterday was 2 weeks almost all the capped brood is gone I I don't see any uncapped broad. Tour videos have been quite informative. Thanks
I learned that in the winter, here in Nebraska anyway.. they flutter a lot inside hive.. keeping the heat up.. when you see them in winter , the reason you are Seeing them on a mild day. They are going to bathroom.. they are very clean.. Is this true?
Great videos and very good and clear information. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and experience in such a candid and professional way. I wish, the camera focused a wee bit more on the queen. For me, it was a first. Very educative. But you don't mention why they don't sting you or go into a frenzy when you are opening the hive with eggs and larvae.
Looks like I am coming a little late to the conversation, but I agree, most informed video I have watched. I have a question. I am building a horizontal Langstroth hive. How does the movement of the cluster differ? Again, best video on beekeeping I have found. Thanks again.
Thanks, and I am working on those videos. Weather has been awful around here, but I am working on more of these especially for the spring diseases...EFB, Chalkbrood, etc.! Thanks for watching.
I love watching most anything about animals and insects ,basically all Natural World things that come on. I have wacthed many where bees were shown or mentioned but never actually set out deliberately to find videos of bees. Having started with some You Tue vhows about bees (particularly Honey bees and keeping them) I have hundreds of questions . Do you have a video that goes into depth about bees and information on how they live how they interact with other insects ,or how they feed . Basically everything and anything to do with them . Thanks for sharing your bees with us all.
I don't, though they are in the making. However, PBS and other companies have many of those documentaries and they are very well put together. I'm sure you can find them on youtube also.
HI,Enjoy all of your videos. I have been beekeeping for 2 1/2 years. I have 2 hives. Went into one hive in the past week that I haven't been in for a while due to weather although I have been feeding sugar cakes every 2 weeks. There was bees (not many) , some homey ( not much) and I could find no brood. I decided to take a frame of brood (from other hive which is strong) (yesterday) and put into this hive. I could not find a queen in either hive but the stronger hive had 2-3 frames of brood, mostly larvae and capped brood. Now, I'm worried I have screwed up everything because I didn't see queens in either. What do I do and what should I expect? Thanks for your help.
Sorry this is probably a mute point already, but here is what I think. If you shook off the bees from the frame of brood, it shouldn't have hurt the strong hive. If you can't find a queen, look for eggs. If you have eggs, the queen was alive in the last three days and is probably fine. A month ago, from today, weak hives may have had a queen but no brood yet, depending on where you live. Check them again and look for eggs, larvae and capped brood. In the US everywhere you should see all stages by now.
Although the queen is obviously longer than the other bees in the hive she actually looks thinner than them to me so I have to ask how the excluder restricts her movement?
The excluder restricts her movements based on the broadness of her shoulders, or thorax...not her abdomen. I've never had a queen get through an excluder unless (and in only one case) one of the wires were bent slightly...and it doesn't take much!
How do you find a unmarked queen, using same principles? Also what variety of bees do you have that allow you to wear only a veil and not get stung massive amounts? Most bees I've worked with love to sting.
Same exact principle, just look for the bowling ball (the queen's thorax is hairless whereas the workers aren't) and the longer abdomen. The queen's thorax is also larger, which is why the queen excluder works. I've worked with about every kind of European honey bee there is on the market, and local feral hives. The hardest thing to learn in beekeeping is how to work the bees. Work calmly with slow deliberate movements, don't jostle anything and avoid crushing bees...you'll be rewarded with calm, non-aggressive bees (unless they are highly stressed, e.g. queenless). If you are working with another beekeeper, make sure they are working the bees in the same way. Also, gloves, if you use them...make you clumsy!
Hi Cindy. I have heard of nail polish being used before successfully though I have never used it. I purchase markers from bee supply companies that are supposed to be water based and not harm the bees. I have never had a problem and the queen marked in this video (thumbnail) is still alive today in her third year and going strong!
I'm new to this and have a cutout 4 swarms and a nuc. They seem to be addicting. I can never seem to find her although I can see larva and brood in some hives others I don't see anything. I seem to always find her on videos but not my hives any ideas? I go slow and have tried each hive a few times days-weeks apart.
HI, Thank you for this video series. One of the most helpful I've seen. My question concerns my year old hive. Half of the hive swarmed about 2 weeks ago and I have been in the hive once immediately after the swarm, to find the queen. I could not find her but saw a open queen cell. Yesterday, I went in the hive. I have 2 supers with no honey and only a little drawn comb in the first super. The 2 bottom brood boxes are full of bees. The top brood box is full of honey and maybe 1 frame of some brood. The bottom brood box has lost of bees, pollen and some capped brood on about 2-3 frames, but not as full as I have seen in the past. Still can't find my queen. Saw larvae but honestly can't remember if I saw eggs. Would it be alright to go back in today and look for eggs, or is that too much stress for my bees. What would be your diagnosis? I'm worried about the hive being queenless and what to do. Still a newbie.
Sorry this isn't a timely reply, but for future reference... It will take some time before you see eggs. The queen has to hatch (which may have already happened), mate and then start laying. Sometimes this will take about 8-10 days if everything goes perfect, but I have had to wait three weeks, sometimes four before I see a successfully mated queen laying eggs. Since this is so early, they may be thinking of swarming again (an afterswarm). If you have the time, give me an update and maybe I can help more. Sorry again!
Educational video sir liked it but sir I am curious to know if somebody wants to start with zero for instance is it possible to start hive with the queen only
I have a question for everybody: I use some makers and they can not stay seven days on, when I mark my queens. Which is the best marker to mark the queen? Thanks in advance.
I have ordered 2 kangaroo Island queen bees to requeen and was worried how am going about doing it. This seems will give me more confidence to achieve my results.
So as the hive transitions to summer, the queen moves back down in the hive to the lower box to begin laying there again? I always hear how they only move up.
The hive actually expands in the spring and summer and contracts in the fall and winter. Ideally, in the fall the hive will store honey in the brood nest starting at the top and moving down, so that by the time winter hits, hopefully, the entire top hive body will be full of honey. This has the effect of shutting the queen down to the bottom and slows the rate at which she lays eggs, because there is less room to lay eggs in. In the summer the queen will move up and down and sideways to expand the brood nest. It is true that the bees like to move upwards because it is simply easier (as the bees eat the honey, crawling up the frames in the winter the brood nest moves with them, or upwards). But, they will move down easy enough. It is hard for them to move sideways in cold climates in the winter. In summer months it isn't hard for them to move around the hive, but hive body congestion will cause them to swarm (if the hive is so strong that the queen's pheromones and the brood pheromones can't penetrate through the hive). Does that help?
When the top of the hive is open, sometimes hornets will fly into the hive. Hornets eat other insects, so they try to steal some of the brood to take back to their hive. If they are caught, the bees will usually dispatch them. If the hive is closed up and strong the hornets can't go in through the door because it is well guarded. If the hive is weak, hornets can come and go...which means if you see this in front of a hive there is a problem that you need to take care of. Hornets also are physically able to fly around 38 degrees in my area, whereas bees need it to be about 44 degrees F, so if the hive is clustered, the entrance is unguarded, but the brood is covered. In this case, hornets can be seen flying away with dead bees that had fallen out of the cluster overnight and are dead on the bottom board. Honey Bees will clean these dead bees out of the hive when it warms up.
That is capped honey, not brood. Honey cappings are non-porous because honey will absorb moisture from the air, but brood has to breathe so brood cappings are porous, which is why they look differently.
one hive inspection was to mark queen bee and ck hive, well long story short, caught queen and was fixing to mark her she got away and flew off, so pissed, left for 3 days came back ,2nd frame i pulled out of hive there she was. good deal, she came bk. So moral to story if this happens to you put top on hive and leave it alone for at least 3 good days.
Shame about the camera angles. There were several times when you were talking about what was on the frame, but the camera wasn't looking at the frame at the time
It doesn't matter how close or far the hives are, bees are driven by pheremones and so they can tell when there is a weak hive, queenless hive, etc. and they will seek those out if there is a nectar dearth. Generally speaking, if they are pretty strong, they all live in peace.
great improvement on sound! thanks! lots of good info! Im still confused on your jar feeders that you put in top empty box. How many nail holes do you punch in lid before you turn it upside down and why doesn't the sugar water drip out? Sure makes sense. I just got these top feeders(link below) but am seeing your point with having them not leave cluster. This is the bee feeder I just got. Supposed to be not much drowning at all due to screens that float. www.brushymountainbeefarm.com/10-Frame-Hive-Top-Feeder-w_Floats/productinfo/688/
Sorry. I've been on vacation. That feeder looks nice for and the floats should help quite a bit. I'v never used it though, although I have used feeders with floats. If they aren't kept clean the floats can get stuck and then not allow the bees to get to the feed.
well I used it and on the outside of feeder i see a knot hole and bees bunching up. Looks like some sugar water bled through not good. Thats why Im going with your method but using mason jars in precut hole to where mason lid fits just below floor to top of brood box.
Take a Ball canning jar with the ring and lid that fit it, then take a finishing nail and poke three holes into the lid, but not all the way through, just part of the way. You don't want a huge hole. Just barely through the lid. Or you can make these. www.ehow.com/way_5484767_homemade-butterfly-feeder.html?crlt.pid=camp.9Le2ig6IcqPA&crlt.pid=camp.Jbe0ahFW38vU 🕉Tina
your videographer was NOT the best, rather hard to see queen moving about on frame. Ditch him & reshoot with someone BETTER, please, esp 4 newbies 2 beekeeping. Your explanations were great, though
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This video was super helpful when I did my inspection yesterday. I actually found the queen in one of my hives that I hadn't seen before! It also saved me a lot of time. Thank you!
That's great! Thanks for letting me know!
Thank you for the high production value and educational style. Couldn't recommend these more highly!!!
Hey HBH, I just wanted to let you know that I really appreciate the work that you're doing here. I had a decent hive going my first year and they absconded last September. Your videos have been HUGE in helping me understand how bees operate and I'm excited about my new colony now that I know what to look for. Thanks!
Your very welcome...glad to be of help. Thanks.
Seeing the queen during a hive inspection is usually kind of neat for both amateur and professional, however, observing and assessing the work the queen is doing is the essential thing because the welfare of the hive depends on it. Nice video, thanks
Thank you. This is, by far, one of the most educational video, as well as being user friendly. Love your style.
Thank You very much!
Excellent video, most instructive.
GREAT VIDEO, PLEASE SHOW the FRAMES IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA as U EXPLAIN. ty and another thing is missing is when u showed the Problems on the Frames I Wish you could explain the reasons and possibly the Solutions , TY
Just excellent, Sir, you did a really good tutorial on finding and protecting the queen and protecting her throughout your inspection. Thanks for your time.I have 34 years in beekeeping so I know when I see excellence. Thanks again.
+Glenn Powell Thank You. That means a lot coming from someone with that experience base!
Most educational and informative videos on TH-cam.
Thank You!
without a doubt. :)
I have been wanting to start bee hives but I was too over whelmed with the steep learning curve, but you have helped much! Thanks much.
+r aeronca Thanks. I'm glad I could help!
I like this better then the first one I watched. He took a long time looking where he did not expect to find her. You didn't bother. And by spending less time in the hive has to benefit the bees.
Glad you liked it...thanks!
Thanks for an excellent video. The best explanation on how to find a queen I have seen. I am a beekeeper ( only two years experience) in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney Australia.
Excellent video, thanks for putting together.
Great video, I've learned a lot from watching your TH-cam videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for letting me know!
I just bought my hive and will have no bees til spring. This was very helpful to me.
Very educational video, detailed and clear explanations.
I would put it in more professional camera from different directions with 4k quality.
I would suggest re do it as its really helpful.
Very informative! Pretty solid presentation. Thank you! Glad i'ved found your channel
Thank you for such a good info. We subscribed to your channel and will continue to watching videos.
So well done! Thank you for a truly professionally done Video! Just Excellent!
Again, Mate, thanks for a great video. Learning so so much, clearly explained in plain English.
Thanks Mr. Dunn Think I'm in the same boat as the last hive, Nuc installed 4 weeks ago had lots capped and uncapped brood, Had the seller come inspect hive 3 weeks ago stated just feed and don't open for 3 weeks. Yesterday was 2 weeks almost all the capped brood is gone I I don't see any uncapped broad. Tour videos have been quite informative. Thanks
Great teacher. Thank you💕💕💕
Thank you I learned so much from your videos.
Good stuff informative ur a real pro with handling those bees will keep watching
Thank you very much!
Thank you for sharing; this vid was really helpful. What part of the U.S.? are you located?
Thank you for taking the time and effort. Those were very informative videos
I learned that in the winter, here in Nebraska anyway.. they flutter a lot inside hive.. keeping the heat up.. when you see them in winter , the reason you are Seeing them on a mild day. They are going to bathroom.. they are very clean..
Is this true?
In winter they have to go for cleansing flights in order to defecate, yes. But, they also forage for water and/or pollen if things are pollinating.
Thanks for the great vid!
Very straight forward and informative.
Great videos and very good and clear information. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and experience in such a candid and professional way. I wish, the camera focused a wee bit more on the queen. For me, it was a first. Very educative. But you don't mention why they don't sting you or go into a frenzy when you are opening the hive with eggs and larvae.
Good videos. Very helpful tips.
Looks like I am coming a little late to the conversation, but I agree, most informed video I have watched. I have a question. I am building a horizontal Langstroth hive. How does the movement of the cluster differ? Again, best video on beekeeping I have found. Thanks again.
This is a fantastic video series. Thanks for the time and effort involved in producing it. 🐝
Thank you...watch for more. When I get some good weather I'll add to it!
Will definitely keep watching. If I can put an order in then more videos on pest and disease identification, treatment and prevention would be great 😄
Thanks, and I am working on those videos. Weather has been awful around here, but I am working on more of these especially for the spring diseases...EFB, Chalkbrood, etc.! Thanks for watching.
Well explained. Thanks!
I love watching most anything about animals and insects ,basically all Natural World things that come on. I have wacthed many where bees were shown or mentioned but never actually set out deliberately to find videos of bees. Having started with some You Tue vhows about bees (particularly Honey bees and keeping them) I have hundreds of questions . Do you have a video that goes into depth about bees and information on how they live how they interact with other insects ,or how they feed . Basically everything and anything to do with them . Thanks for sharing your bees with us all.
I don't, though they are in the making. However, PBS and other companies have many of those documentaries and they are very well put together. I'm sure you can find them on youtube also.
Great info there!! Thx!! Will make it easier to find her.
+Scott Sladky Thanks. Glad to hear you found it useful!
Thanks for the well explained video! I'm learning a lot on your channel
Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad you like the videos too!
HI,Enjoy all of your videos. I have been beekeeping for 2 1/2 years. I have 2 hives. Went into one hive in the past week that I haven't been in for a while due to weather although I have been feeding sugar cakes every 2 weeks. There was bees (not many) , some homey ( not much) and I could find no brood. I decided to take a frame of brood (from other hive which is strong) (yesterday) and put into this hive. I could not find a queen in either hive but the stronger hive had 2-3 frames of brood, mostly larvae and capped brood. Now, I'm worried I have screwed up everything because I didn't see queens in either. What do I do and what should I expect? Thanks for your help.
Sorry this is probably a mute point already, but here is what I think. If you shook off the bees from the frame of brood, it shouldn't have hurt the strong hive. If you can't find a queen, look for eggs. If you have eggs, the queen was alive in the last three days and is probably fine. A month ago, from today, weak hives may have had a queen but no brood yet, depending on where you live. Check them again and look for eggs, larvae and capped brood. In the US everywhere you should see all stages by now.
Although the queen is obviously longer than the other bees in the hive she actually looks thinner than them to me so I have to ask how the excluder restricts her movement?
The excluder restricts her movements based on the broadness of her shoulders, or thorax...not her abdomen. I've never had a queen get through an excluder unless (and in only one case) one of the wires were bent slightly...and it doesn't take much!
What are your latest videos? Do you do any Langstroth Top Bar hives?
How do you find a unmarked queen, using same principles? Also what variety of bees do you have that allow you to wear only a veil and not get stung massive amounts? Most bees I've worked with love to sting.
Same exact principle, just look for the bowling ball (the queen's thorax is hairless whereas the workers aren't) and the longer abdomen. The queen's thorax is also larger, which is why the queen excluder works. I've worked with about every kind of European honey bee there is on the market, and local feral hives. The hardest thing to learn in beekeeping is how to work the bees. Work calmly with slow deliberate movements, don't jostle anything and avoid crushing bees...you'll be rewarded with calm, non-aggressive bees (unless they are highly stressed, e.g. queenless). If you are working with another beekeeper, make sure they are working the bees in the same way. Also, gloves, if you use them...make you clumsy!
hi! what camera make and model do you use to monitor the hives??
hi honey bee, i just would like to know what do you use to mark the queen? can nail Polish be used? very informative videos thanks,
Hi Cindy. I have heard of nail polish being used before successfully though I have never used it. I purchase markers from bee supply companies that are supposed to be water based and not harm the bees. I have never had a problem and the queen marked in this video (thumbnail) is still alive today in her third year and going strong!
Very good info thank you for your. Time Marcus
I'm new to this and have a cutout 4 swarms and a nuc. They seem to be addicting. I can never seem to find her although I can see larva and brood in some hives others I don't see anything. I seem to always find her on videos but not my hives any ideas? I go slow and have tried each hive a few times days-weeks apart.
HI, Thank you for this video series. One of the most helpful I've seen. My question concerns my year old hive. Half of the hive swarmed about 2 weeks ago and I have been in the hive once immediately after the swarm, to find the queen. I could not find her but saw a open queen cell. Yesterday, I went in the hive. I have 2 supers with no honey and only a little drawn comb in the first super. The 2 bottom brood boxes are full of bees. The top brood box is full of honey and maybe 1 frame of some brood. The bottom brood box has lost of bees, pollen and some capped brood on about 2-3 frames, but not as full as I have seen in the past. Still can't find my queen. Saw larvae but honestly can't remember if I saw eggs. Would it be alright to go back in today and look for eggs, or is that too much stress for my bees. What would be your diagnosis? I'm worried about the hive being queenless and what to do. Still a newbie.
Sorry this isn't a timely reply, but for future reference...
It will take some time before you see eggs. The queen has to hatch (which may have already happened), mate and then start laying. Sometimes this will take about 8-10 days if everything goes perfect, but I have had to wait three weeks, sometimes four before I see a successfully mated queen laying eggs. Since this is so early, they may be thinking of swarming again (an afterswarm). If you have the time, give me an update and maybe I can help more. Sorry again!
Educational video sir liked it but sir I am curious to know if somebody wants to start with zero for instance is it possible to start hive with the queen only
Not with Honey bees, they have to have workers to protect, defend, feed and take care of the queen. Thanks for asking.
I have a question for everybody:
I use some makers and they can not stay seven days on, when I mark my queens.
Which is the best marker to mark the queen?
Thanks in advance.
I have ordered 2 kangaroo Island queen bees to requeen and was worried how am going about doing it. This seems will give me more confidence to achieve my results.
What about hives in Hawaii? What is the patten? How you explain in the being of the video.
This is the reason why I choose to add a new brood box to the bottom when expanding the colony.
So as the hive transitions to summer, the queen moves back down in the hive to the lower box to begin laying there again? I always hear how they only move up.
The hive actually expands in the spring and summer and contracts in the fall and winter. Ideally, in the fall the hive will store honey in the brood nest starting at the top and moving down, so that by the time winter hits, hopefully, the entire top hive body will be full of honey. This has the effect of shutting the queen down to the bottom and slows the rate at which she lays eggs, because there is less room to lay eggs in. In the summer the queen will move up and down and sideways to expand the brood nest. It is true that the bees like to move upwards because it is simply easier (as the bees eat the honey, crawling up the frames in the winter the brood nest moves with them, or upwards). But, they will move down easy enough. It is hard for them to move sideways in cold climates in the winter. In summer months it isn't hard for them to move around the hive, but hive body congestion will cause them to swarm (if the hive is so strong that the queen's pheromones and the brood pheromones can't penetrate through the hive). Does that help?
I'm confused, you made a few comments about hornets, why would they be coming to the hive and does that happen often?
When the top of the hive is open, sometimes hornets will fly into the hive. Hornets eat other insects, so they try to steal some of the brood to take back to their hive. If they are caught, the bees will usually dispatch them. If the hive is closed up and strong the hornets can't go in through the door because it is well guarded. If the hive is weak, hornets can come and go...which means if you see this in front of a hive there is a problem that you need to take care of. Hornets also are physically able to fly around 38 degrees in my area, whereas bees need it to be about 44 degrees F, so if the hive is clustered, the entrance is unguarded, but the brood is covered. In this case, hornets can be seen flying away with dead bees that had fallen out of the cluster overnight and are dead on the bottom board. Honey Bees will clean these dead bees out of the hive when it warms up.
Thanks Sir for Sharing this with us Sir
thanks for replying, gonna have to check my local bee store if they have any, thanks again all the best, ☺
To you too!
candler,n.c. blueridge mts.did good brother, very informative, thank you for your time.
+Michael Moore Thanks for taking the time to comment. I appreciate it!
My queens must be confused because approximately 65-70 % of the time I find them on frames that you say would never see the queen on.
Does every box have a queen? Or is it one queen for whole community?
One hive has one queen, no matter how may supers, fyi boxes have six sides and supers have four.
thank you, these videos are so helpful for a new beek :)
+Rachel Hibberd Thanks Rachel. I'm glad you find them helpful!
Any advice on finding an unmarked queen?
the capped brood in the top left and right in the frame you pulled that had the queen was looking diffrent than the capped brood in the center why?
That is capped honey, not brood. Honey cappings are non-porous because honey will absorb moisture from the air, but brood has to breathe so brood cappings are porous, which is why they look differently.
thanks
one hive inspection was to mark queen bee and ck hive, well long story short, caught queen and was fixing to mark her she got away and flew off, so pissed, left for 3 days came back ,2nd frame i pulled out of hive there she was. good deal, she came bk.
So moral to story if this happens to you put top on hive and leave it alone for at least 3 good days.
Super helpful! Thank you :))
where did you buy your frame holder perch?
Single brood box has the same aspect but less hassle looking for queen.
Shame about the camera angles. There were several times when you were talking about what was on the frame, but the camera wasn't looking at the frame at the time
Another great video! Keep em coming. Thanks again. Ladykat33
GREAT VIDEO! VERY GOOD JOB!
Thank You!!!
Excellent!
Thanks!
do you have a good video on making splits? thanks!!
I think so...but I'm biased! Maybe this will help!
th-cam.com/video/4vCVFvHOfJM/w-d-xo.html
great video, thank you
EXCELLENT video (long, but very good)
Thanks!
Good tutorial in every way :)
+Paulo Silva Thanks again! Hope the sound is better now!
Sound is perfect, keep up the good work :)
Sukhdevrai
Great videos brother
Thanks for the input!
do the hives ever attack each other being so close?
It doesn't matter how close or far the hives are, bees are driven by pheremones and so they can tell when there is a weak hive, queenless hive, etc. and they will seek those out if there is a nectar dearth. Generally speaking, if they are pretty strong, they all live in peace.
thanks HBH
what do you use to mark the queen?
I get new idea thanks
great improvement on sound! thanks! lots of good info! Im still confused on your jar feeders that you put in top empty box. How many nail holes do you punch in lid before you turn it upside down and why doesn't the sugar water drip out? Sure makes sense. I just got these top feeders(link below) but am seeing your point with having them not leave cluster. This is the bee feeder I just got. Supposed to be not much drowning at all due to screens that float. www.brushymountainbeefarm.com/10-Frame-Hive-Top-Feeder-w_Floats/productinfo/688/
Sorry. I've been on vacation. That feeder looks nice for and the floats should help quite a bit. I'v never used it though, although I have used feeders with floats. If they aren't kept clean the floats can get stuck and then not allow the bees to get to the feed.
well I used it and on the outside of feeder i see a knot hole and bees bunching up. Looks like some sugar water bled through not good. Thats why Im going with your method but using mason jars in precut hole to where mason lid fits just below floor to top of brood box.
Sounds good. Let me know how it works out!
Take a Ball canning jar with the ring and lid that fit it, then take a finishing nail and poke three holes into the lid, but not all the way through, just part of the way. You don't want a huge hole. Just barely through the lid. Or you can make these. www.ehow.com/way_5484767_homemade-butterfly-feeder.html?crlt.pid=camp.9Le2ig6IcqPA&crlt.pid=camp.Jbe0ahFW38vU
🕉Tina
Appreciate you greatly
Nice!
It was good and Knowledge.But it was hard to hear.
your videographer was NOT the best, rather hard to see queen moving about on frame. Ditch him & reshoot with someone BETTER, please, esp 4 newbies 2 beekeeping. Your explanations were great, though
Ki
Camera Man needs training
Give me honey
Sss
what did you use to mark the queen
I just use a pen available from most bee supply companies, water based paint.
Ok thank you
Honey Bee Honey can a felt pen work?